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six people are dead including a young diplomat.
ron
mott is live with more.
ron
, good morning.

>> reporter: hey, erica, good morning to you. there's no such thing as routine movements in
afghanistan
, but the mission the young
foreign service
worker was on yesterday is pretty fundamental. she was on the way to a school in a convoy to deliver books to children when tragedy ensued. a suicide attacker detonated a bomb killing three american service members and two civilians, including the diplomat, anne smedinghoff. she'd been here in
afghanistan
since last summer doing a job her parents said she absolutely loved. in a statement to the "
washington post
," her parents called her a wonderful woman, strong, intelligent, independent, and loved what she was doing. they are consoled knowing she was serving her country by helping to make a positive difference in the world. today in turkey, an emotional secretary of state
john kerry
, who met with her a few weeks ago, called saturday's attacks on americans a grim reminder of the dangers
foreign service
workers can face abroad.

>>a young 25-year-old woman with all of the future ahead of her, believing in the possibility of diplomacy, of changing people's lives, of making a difference, having an impact, who was taking knowledge and books to deliver them to a school. the folks who want to kill people, and that's all they want to do, are scared of knowledge.

>> reporter: now, this violence erupted on the day that general
martin dempsey
, the
chairman of the joint chiefs of staff
, arrived here in
afghanistan
. he is assessing how many troops need to be in the country when the troop ends in
2014
.